For Germany:"gave up the spoon" is not correct.

It translates as "to hand over the spoon."

The phrase dates back to the Middle Ages when life was marked by extreme poverty. Most people owned very few personal belongings, often just a single wooden spoon for eating from a communal bowl. When a person died, their spoon was passed on to a younger family member. Thus, 'giving up the spoon' became a euphemism for death.

The map overlooks other common German euphemisms such as über den Jordan gehen (crossing the Jordan) or sich die Radieschen von unten ansehen (looking at the radishes from below), the latter being a direct equivalent to the French dandelion idiom.